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OpenAI and Anthropic have each hired dozens of Salesforce employees since the start of 2026, with more than 45 joining Anthropic and close to 40 joining OpenAI, primarily for sales and marketing roles. The hiring reflects both companies' efforts to build out enterprise sales teams as they compete for corporate customers. Salesforce's deep bench of enterprise software talent has become a key recruitment source for the AI companies.

Temasek, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund managing hundreds of billions in assets, plans to triple its AI investment holdings from $25 billion to $75 billion by 2030, representing a shift from cautious observer to major player in AI infrastructure and startups. The firm, known for patient capital and risk management focus, has recently invested in major AI rounds from Anthropic, Isomorphic Labs, and Waymo. The move reflects broader institutional capital flowing into AI, though Temasek executives acknowledge uncertainty about whether corporate AI spending actually delivers returns.

Microsoft is exploring the integration of DeepSeek's V4 model as a cost-effective option for its Copilot Cowork AI assistant, according to reporting from Axios. The company is evaluating either a Microsoft-hosted version of DeepSeek V4 or another open-source alternative to reduce expenses associated with powering the assistant. This move reflects Microsoft's effort to balance capability with cost efficiency in its AI product offerings.

Z.ai released GLM-5.2, a 753-billion parameter open-weights LLM that outperforms OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on multiple long-horizon coding benchmarks while costing one-sixth as much. The model features a 1-million-token context window and is available under an MIT license for local deployment, positioning it as an alternative for enterprises concerned about U.S. regulatory restrictions on proprietary AI models.